MAKING WORLDS. (+ Nederlandse versie) Petra's work is highly imaginative and created on the computer. Her works of art are one hundred percent digital and produces by transferring images directly from computer generated digital files to photographic materials. This makes it a highly contemporary production process and Petra achieves the highest quality in terms of brightness, clarity, sharpness and color saturation. The final top layer consists of liquid glass with Swarovski Crystals, diamonds, reptiles or insects. Completely handmade.

After she finished her studies at the Lyceum of Graphic Design Amsterdam and The International school of Communication Arts, she worked many years as an art director at renowned international advertising companies in Amsterdam and London like JWT, Leo Burnett and Ogilvy. In 2004 she switched to the art world fulltime in order to create her magisterial 'Heart-World universe'.

In 2010 she exhibited at Art Amsterdam ‘10 for the first time, after having had a successful exhibition, ‘Manga in Amsterdam’, at the Kerseboom Gallery. This exhibition included work by contemporary Japanese artists like Takashi Murakami, Aya Toshikawa, Saori Nakamishi, Aya Rokkaku, Aya Takano, Maki Hosokawa, Hiro Ando and Yoshitomo Nara. Since September 2010 she has had several international exhibitions at the Wanrooij Gallery in Brussels, Hamburg, London and New York City. In 2012 she exhibited at Kerseboom Gallery ‘Memorable Encounters‘ with Han Yajuan and Noriko Ito.

Her works of art often features nature. The earth and her beauty. Flowers, the sea, rivers. For Petra the world is a polar system, just as nature. Everything balances out everything else and so it is neutral again.

At the moment Petra is very interested in minuscule life and its structures. She uses her microscope or looks through her telescope at the moon and the stars. Over the years she has collected objects from nature. Shells, branches, starfishes, skeletons, butterflies, bird’s nests, insects, stones, rocks or flowers. She collects them all in her studio where they lie, waiting to be drawn.

She generally only create positive things, to take the good things from life. To let people look at the world in a different way. For example by creating a skyline with people dancing on the skyscrapers, mountains with cut-out circles, the enlargement of insects or radiolarians. The image alienates. A part does exist and the other one doesn’t.